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Socrates quotes (showing 1-30 of 171) “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates tags: knowledge, wisdom 6,737 people liked it
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” ― Socrates tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom 3,322 people liked it
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“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” ― Socrates 2,090 people liked it
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“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think” ― Socrates tags: knowledge, philosophy 865 people liked it
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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” ― Socrates tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder 769 people liked it
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“To find yourself, think for yourself.” ― Socrates tags: independence, self-reliance 617 people liked it
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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” ― Socrates tags: philosophy 581 people liked it
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“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” ― Socrates tags: marriage 510 people liked it
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“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.” ― Socrates tags: friendship 477 people liked it
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“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.” ― Socrates 363 people liked it
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“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ― Socrates tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship 361 people liked it
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“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” ― Socrates tags: avarice, contentment, gluttony, greed 350 people liked it
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“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” ― Socrates tags: knowledge-ignorance 314 people liked it
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“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.” ― Socrates tags: humor, teachers, teens 302 people liked it
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“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.” ― Socrates tags: gossip 298 people liked it
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“Know thyself.” ― Socrates tags: inspirational 287 people liked it
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“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.” ― Socrates 235 people liked it
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“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” ― Socrates 232 people liked it
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“Let him who would move the world first move himself.” ― Socrates tags: change, self-determination, self-development 214 people liked it
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“Every action has its pleasures and its price.” ― Socrates 212 people liked it
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“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” ― Socrates tags: character, excellence, reputation, striving 205 people liked it
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“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.” ― Socrates tags: golden-rule 193 people liked it
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“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” ― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates (Barnes & Noble Collector's Library) tags: contentment, philosophy 189 people liked it
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“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” ― Socrates 184 people liked it
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“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” ― Socrates 179 people liked it
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“I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” ― Socrates 175 people liked it
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“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual” ― Socrates 153 people liked it
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“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.” ― Socrates tags: character, rectitude
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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” ― Socrates tags: inspirational, reading, wisdom 131 people liked it
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“Envy is the ulcer of the soul.” ― Socrates
